this shit is awesome those tambourines are huge i wish i was 38 again my teeth are falling out of my face. Oh man it was such a great time being there with my huge parka on.. If only I hadn't tripped on that old man's hat
I can bet that these Monks have no idea in whose name John, the Baptist, Angel of Israel baptised Jewish men in water? Why He did not baptise a woman or a Gentile?
These are blind guides leading the blind to Pit. Prayer counted in the Old Covenant when the demiurge creator god Yahweh could not listen but our Father is Omniscient. Then why waste time in Prayers and not ponder over His Word? The End of the world is around the corner. Matt.13.v24-30 is being fulfilled. Second coming of Christ...
@nijjhar1 Go fuck a priest, a nun, a rabi, some saints as well and a duck. Fuck religion and dumb ass religious comments. Second coming of Christ? Christ was in the damn crowd jamming out to this music and you're fucking a duck. Go figure. Can I have an Amen?
@DragonChaserKev Amen. True religion is in the soul, not worn on your sleeve to piss people off. MUSIC is the greatest religion ever. Wars fought for music: 0
@JustOneMeatPuppet Music is an invented religion that didn't exist until recording technology was available. Those who worship it worship false gods......
@JustOneMeatPuppet You couldn't very well worship it without the videos, recordings, and other media that technology has made it possible. Goons like you are why I'd catch more flack saying I was glad Mark David Chapman popped John Lennon than I would if I said I was glad Jesus was crucified.
@straydogbluesman Wow, you somehow persist with this brain-dead topic... You know me so well, don't you? Otherwise, you wouldn't accuse me of hypothetical bullshit that might happen to you.
One last time: if religion means peace of mind, then music is religion for me. It doesn't mean I worship Lennon, I just really like his music. Please remove your head from the inside of your ass and lower that sanctimonious finger you're pointing at complete strangers.
Unbelievable that they went across the garage flow of the 60s. Really brave guys. The music was also quite different from the 60's garage rock. My hobby is to rediscover all those great band from the 60s that didn´t "broke through. It´s a fantastic musical treasure. Listen for example to The Music Machine (Talk, talk), The Golliwogs (Tell me) and of course THE ZETTLERS and their recordings "Skinnie Minnie" and "Beautiful Delilah". Really f.....g good with a bloody driving beat.
@ShapelyDice You didn't think they were really about chastity and that stuff right? Why do you think they make all those different kinds of beer in monasteries? Crazy party people man, those monks. XD
@GISMCONFUSE Give it a rest man, how is it any different for anyone who wants to make it in the music business today? You have the right to express your opinion, but you had not given any reason as to why the monks "sucked" in your first comment, so it was not a valid one. That makes you no better than those idiot metalheads who troll bieber and gaga videos. Please, let's be more civilized than that. :)
@GISMCONFUSE Give it a rest man, how is it any different for anyone who wants to make it in the music business today? You have the right to express your opinion, but you had not given any reason as to why the monks "sucked" in your first comment, so it was not a valid one. That makes you no better than those idiot metalheads who troll bieber and gaga videos. Please, let's be more civilized than that. :)
@GISMCONFUSE Give it a rest man, how is it any different for anyone who wants to make it in the music business today? You have the right to express your opinion, but you had not given any reason as to why the monks "sucked" in your first comment, so it was not a valid one. That makes you no better than those idiot metalheads who troll bieber and gaga videos. Please, let's be more civilized than that. :)
Dear Mr Gismconfuse.......I am no longer reading your comments since you very rudely and childishly left comments on my profile. You are now blocked and I am not even deigning to read your nonesense on this thread. You are a very immature and silly man.
why is it that anyone who doesnt like the monks for one reason or another are deemed "stupid" and "wrong." anything you guys have to say is just OPINION, like me. AND JUST TO SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT, NONE OF THEM OPPOSED VIETNAM IT WAS JUST A MARKETING STUNT THEY SAID IT THEMSELVES.
the Monks were, possibly the most "out there" unknown group of the 60's. Really ahead of their time, strange and abrasive, they would have been quite a blast (listen to "blast off" off Black Monk Time)
I believe, after many listens, that they are VERY talented musicians, possibly expressing an anti-war message in their lyrics/music. Mind blowing stuff!
@GISMCONFUSE Seriously? You can't have a true appreciation of music if you don't like the Monks and if you are just saying it to be predictably and unimaginatively trollish.....how dull! P.S. I am certain your gism really does confuse you! It has obviously skewed your musical appreciation beyond all redemption and pre- pubescent boys are normally confused by their first semenal projection.
@jwattie yes, seriously. and my gism has confused me? wow clever. anyways, the "monks" were a bunch of hypacritical douchbags that were made and modified by german producers (not very good ones obviously) and uhhhh.... yeah, they sucked ass.
@GISMCONFUSE Haha! It was a reference to a sketch about trolls, I'm perfectly aware of how to spell the word faggot thank you and if you had a valid argument other than something "sucks ass" as you so eloquently put it then maybe your opinion would be more valid. As it stands I doubt many people would take your criticism seriously simply because you are unable to express yourself.
@GISMCONFUSE Oh and another thing, I have blocked you so you will no longer be able to post silly comments on my profile. If you don't like my taste in music move on but judging from the music on your profile which is pretty immature and unsophisticated I doubt you would have the good sense to do something so sensible. If you really are 47 then you should be ashamed of your infantile behaviour! Just pathetic!
@jwattie I am actually very able to express myself, but I didn't necessarily WANT anyone to take me all that seriously. It seems however, that you yourself have fallen for my supposed futile attempt at being a "troll". And what was that about the Music I listen to? Immature?! I'm guessing anything "hip-hop" is garbage in your opinion? And by the way, Im nineteen years old, not 47. And yeah... there is nothing on my page more unsophisticated than the monks.
@GISMCONFUSE Hip hop isn't garbage but the music you have on your channel isn't hip hop. It is a pale, shitty imitation of he music my generation made. The Monks wipe the floor with any piece of shit, plageurised crap your music has to offer sunshine!
@GISMCONFUSE This from the man (and I'm using that term in it's loosest form obviously!) who responded in a few days? The very reason I didn't reply for six months is because unlike you I don't feel the need to hang around waiting for a response to my posts on you tube because it's the only attention from the opposite sex that I'm likely to get! I shall probably be off for another six months now because cretinous little boys bore the shit out of me.....bye!!!!
@TeenCretin Whereas you listen to "music for people who don't have any friends and think following trends and listening to what everyone else listens to will help", which unfortunately is sadder.
green day are kind of hot and miss nowadays but american idiot was good.dookie good./great.imsomniac .great/good.theres 2 kinds of music good and bad.green day are good..dont blame them for their imitators..sum 41 are shit for example...ragging on green day is just plain dumb pal.wise up
@stankler I have never once considered green day punk, and find that those who do should actually research punk as a genre and the musicians who made it what it is. Punk is dead. little suburbanites with mohawks and bleached hair are in no way punk. iggy pop is punk. charged spikey hair and songs about rebellion are pop rock punk cash-ins. green day is the same a good charlotte. they make a living off of teen angst. you, should wise up and learn that music is subjective and genres are not.
Good morning, do you like sixties? Listen and pod cast my program " great sound of 60' s " on the site plumfm. Greeting and made blooper in rock and roll.
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Good morning, do you like sixties? Listen and pod cast my program " great sound of 60' s " on the site plumfm. Greeting and made blooper in rock and roll.
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There are like a million punk bands that claim to be the original punk band or the only true punk band. And here is the real thing, punk without even trying to be punk, Isn't that the ultimate punk? And, almost as a contradiction, better than the would-bes.
One of the maddest bands and stories in Rock history, so far ahead of anything its hard to believe, the fact that they were GI's makes it even more incredible!
These guys were US soldiers stationed in Germany. I'm surprised the army let them get away with those haircuts. Gotta love those drums and that fuzz bass.
Wow, a Philicorda organ with a Klemt Echolette tape delay - drooool... Overend Watts (bassist of Mott the Hoople) is one of the Monks biggest fans. Class!
they were so so so rad, extremely influential... one of the first bases of punk and art rock. although they didn't beat out the kinks... debase me all you want i don't care
Love it! Sure play a guitar like Ouija Board...why not?...who knows what forces you'll summon. Also, I've never seen so many big tambourines! Looks like a wacked-out opening ceremony for some subcultural Olympics! Yep they're friggin' Gods. And don't forget to check out the GODZ.
Everyone check out CORDUROY00's uploads of ALL The Monks "Beat Club" performances. PRISTINE! It never fails to blow my mind (and I say this on every Monks video) that I went from seeing these guys in Feb. of '06 right here on YT, to meeting Dave and Eddie only a few months later. I wrote Dave a letter for a T-shirt, he wrote me back, and on July 1, '06 I went to the L.A. premier of "The Transatlantic Feedback" and met both Dave and Eddie. R.I.P Dave....miss ya.
WOW...I thought I was fortunate to be living in Seattle in the early-mid 90's during the whole grunge thing...but it turns out that what I really missed was Germany circa mid 60's
Great band the monks but if you'll listen to the peruvian band Los saicos and the songs demoler, Alcatraz, el gato mayor recorded 1964, you'll agree with Iggy pop and the singer of the Cramps they were punks before the punk started
ah know that area pretty well, got mates up there. yeah liked what i 'eard from vivian girls (albeit not much) and of course eighties matchbox will do any day of the week. if they (VG) play somewhere real small i'll ave a gander, can't hack big venues, cheers for heads up mate
you heard Liars? 'They stuck us all in a trench and put a monument on top' and 'they were wrong, so we drowned' are both awesome albums. Also a band called McClusky that imploded far too soon and The Walkmen who sound nothing like the other bands but are the real deal. you from salford then? i'm based in south manchester
Ah, just got done playing "Black Monk Time" on my turntable. Had to come and post some Monks on Facebook. All I've been through with this band is such a trip. From first seeing them on You Tube in Feb. of '06 to meeting Dave and Eddie in July '06 to keeping in contact with Dave up until his passing in Jan. of '08. Guys I love the fact you've been getting your due over these years, may God continue to bless your musical legacy. I've love to be able to see you again Dave. In heaven someday.
@catrileo68 why would you even mention green day in the same breath as the legendary monks give me a break the monks are so much more superior to those commercial sell outs
@bimhimbim I'm not sure that is true....they already had a very deeply ingraned american blues influence which is perfectly influential in their music. I don't doubt Germanic music of the time would have an effect, they wee rised in the great american jazz era so must have been influenced. The music whch followed was wonderful though and the german peopl really appreciated the music in it's purest form.
@bimhimbim I'm not sure that is true....they already had a very deeply ingrained american blues influence which is perfectly influential in their music. I don't doubt Germanic music of the time would have an effect, they wee rised in the great american jazz era so must have been influenced. The music whch followed was wonderful though and the german peopl really appreciated the music in it's purest form.
@fuzzbuzzuk well the sonics are kinda like them a litle bit, and there's some strange Japanese US army base music that isn't totally unlike this either. No one did it quite like the monks though so, true enough.
@ThommyCortina that's the most wicked sounding organ i think i've ever heard. we used to plug a friend's continental into a univox super fuzz and get a great tone, but that's beyond crazy! thanks for the model names
Overdriven keyboard, bass distortion that sounds like that amp should have melted to the floor, and 5 tambourines at once....yep, definitely checking this band out more.
There is this documentary called "The monks - the transatlantic feedback", or something like that. Try to get hold of it. I think there is also a version in English.
5 ex american soldiers and two ahead of their time German managers produced the best band in the 1960's...they were the beginning of industrial....techno..
this shit is awesome those tambourines are huge i wish i was 38 again my teeth are falling out of my face. Oh man it was such a great time being there with my huge parka on.. If only I hadn't tripped on that old man's hat
zwclax 1 day ago
Drumming... sounds like adam and the ants. and that bass. it's like.... bumvz bumbum bumvz... and dem geetars are like... pre-sonic youth nuttiness.
bambismash 1 month ago
Did Syd Barrett know about that guitar "solo"?
puddleg 1 month ago
Three vultures pick the life out of a dead guitar. Ace video.
Nagsworth 2 months ago
I can bet that these Monks have no idea in whose name John, the Baptist, Angel of Israel baptised Jewish men in water? Why He did not baptise a woman or a Gentile?
These are blind guides leading the blind to Pit. Prayer counted in the Old Covenant when the demiurge creator god Yahweh could not listen but our Father is Omniscient. Then why waste time in Prayers and not ponder over His Word? The End of the world is around the corner. Matt.13.v24-30 is being fulfilled. Second coming of Christ...
nijjhar1 2 months ago
@nijjhar1 You're a nutjob. This is the catchiest shit ever written,
1988cmd 2 months ago
@nijjhar1 Best youtube comment I ever read.
Nagsworth 2 months ago
@nijjhar1 Go fuck a priest, a nun, a rabi, some saints as well and a duck. Fuck religion and dumb ass religious comments. Second coming of Christ? Christ was in the damn crowd jamming out to this music and you're fucking a duck. Go figure. Can I have an Amen?
DragonChaserKev 1 month ago
@DragonChaserKev Amen. True religion is in the soul, not worn on your sleeve to piss people off. MUSIC is the greatest religion ever. Wars fought for music: 0
JustOneMeatPuppet 3 weeks ago
@JustOneMeatPuppet Music is an invented religion that didn't exist until recording technology was available. Those who worship it worship false gods......
straydogbluesman 1 week ago
@straydogbluesman Yeah yeah, whatever, man...
JustOneMeatPuppet 1 week ago
@JustOneMeatPuppet You couldn't very well worship it without the videos, recordings, and other media that technology has made it possible. Goons like you are why I'd catch more flack saying I was glad Mark David Chapman popped John Lennon than I would if I said I was glad Jesus was crucified.
straydogbluesman 1 week ago
@straydogbluesman Wow, you somehow persist with this brain-dead topic... You know me so well, don't you? Otherwise, you wouldn't accuse me of hypothetical bullshit that might happen to you.
One last time: if religion means peace of mind, then music is religion for me. It doesn't mean I worship Lennon, I just really like his music. Please remove your head from the inside of your ass and lower that sanctimonious finger you're pointing at complete strangers.
JustOneMeatPuppet 6 days ago
@JustOneMeatPuppet Religion doesn't mean peace of mind. Lennon sucks.
straydogbluesman 6 days ago
@straydogbluesman Ok, man, good for you...
JustOneMeatPuppet 6 days ago
Fitzroy North, circa. 2010
AmpleWarning 2 months ago
way way ahead of their time - buy black monk time - jaw droppingly good nearly 50 years later
jonjuliecat 3 months ago
Unbelievable that they went across the garage flow of the 60s. Really brave guys. The music was also quite different from the 60's garage rock. My hobby is to rediscover all those great band from the 60s that didn´t "broke through. It´s a fantastic musical treasure. Listen for example to The Music Machine (Talk, talk), The Golliwogs (Tell me) and of course THE ZETTLERS and their recordings "Skinnie Minnie" and "Beautiful Delilah". Really f.....g good with a bloody driving beat.
TheSunbau 3 months ago
A-fucking Mazing...didn't like it at the time though. (long hair was EVERYTHING)
These dudes where so brave ,to make that anti Beatle statement. (Although they liked 'm ofcourse)
PAULLONDEN 4 months ago
I'm pretty sure all of these guys had children. If I'm not mistaken, their sons formed a band called Mutemath.
aaronbassist146 4 months ago
irre intro
lucalunaindiepop 5 months ago
Listen to that fuzz bass!!!!
999manman 5 months ago
these guys are fucking amazing.........
Toxiejunkie 5 months ago
As a first timer I am mega impressed, why haven't I heard of these guys before???
55chh 5 months ago
This is like the trashmen meet John Cage....in fukk'in credible
goatee10002 5 months ago
rape gretsch
kent700 6 months ago
Fast forward to 1:10. I'm about 99.9% certain that this exercise was what inspired iPad's hands-on upgrade of GarageBand.
Stephanjnj 6 months ago
And thus there was Punk,and it was awesome.
deekante 7 months ago 2
Why in the fuck aren't The Monks more heard of?!
MrBrainpan 7 months ago
amazing music...i've become intrigued and cannot imagine hearing this music at the time produced...
fortylove64 7 months ago
The Residents must have been into this band.
Lamronormal 7 months ago 5
This the most savage yet beautiful thing ive ever seen.
youthXattack 8 months ago
These guys had such great energy onstage.
GodoftheHanged 8 months ago
I never heard of these guys, till this minute, wow, very different
redredreds100 9 months ago
Geez, I'd be the first one in the monastery if monks chanted like these Monks.
ShapelyDice 10 months ago 7
@ShapelyDice You didn't think they were really about chastity and that stuff right? Why do you think they make all those different kinds of beer in monasteries? Crazy party people man, those monks. XD
TheRacistsMustDie 4 months ago
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@GISMCONFUSE Give it a rest man, how is it any different for anyone who wants to make it in the music business today? You have the right to express your opinion, but you had not given any reason as to why the monks "sucked" in your first comment, so it was not a valid one. That makes you no better than those idiot metalheads who troll bieber and gaga videos. Please, let's be more civilized than that. :)
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@GISMCONFUSE Give it a rest man, how is it any different for anyone who wants to make it in the music business today? You have the right to express your opinion, but you had not given any reason as to why the monks "sucked" in your first comment, so it was not a valid one. That makes you no better than those idiot metalheads who troll bieber and gaga videos. Please, let's be more civilized than that. :)
alexsweeley 10 months ago
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@GISMCONFUSE Give it a rest man, how is it any different for anyone who wants to make it in the music business today? You have the right to express your opinion, but you had not given any reason as to why the monks "sucked" in your first comment, so it was not a valid one. That makes you no better than those idiot metalheads who troll bieber and gaga videos. Please, let's be more civilized than that. :)
alexsweeley 10 months ago
I've looked, but there seems to be no studio version of monk chant.
alexsweeley 10 months ago
Dear Mr Gismconfuse.......I am no longer reading your comments since you very rudely and childishly left comments on my profile. You are now blocked and I am not even deigning to read your nonesense on this thread. You are a very immature and silly man.
jwattie 11 months ago
why is it that anyone who doesnt like the monks for one reason or another are deemed "stupid" and "wrong." anything you guys have to say is just OPINION, like me. AND JUST TO SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT, NONE OF THEM OPPOSED VIETNAM IT WAS JUST A MARKETING STUNT THEY SAID IT THEMSELVES.
GISMCONFUSE 11 months ago
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UncoiledOval 11 months ago
the Monks were, possibly the most "out there" unknown group of the 60's. Really ahead of their time, strange and abrasive, they would have been quite a blast (listen to "blast off" off Black Monk Time)
I believe, after many listens, that they are VERY talented musicians, possibly expressing an anti-war message in their lyrics/music. Mind blowing stuff!
fretboardyoda 11 months ago
the monks sucked!
GISMCONFUSE 11 months ago
@GISMCONFUSE Seriously? You can't have a true appreciation of music if you don't like the Monks and if you are just saying it to be predictably and unimaginatively trollish.....how dull! P.S. I am certain your gism really does confuse you! It has obviously skewed your musical appreciation beyond all redemption and pre- pubescent boys are normally confused by their first semenal projection.
jwattie 11 months ago
@jwattie yes, seriously. and my gism has confused me? wow clever. anyways, the "monks" were a bunch of hypacritical douchbags that were made and modified by german producers (not very good ones obviously) and uhhhh.... yeah, they sucked ass.
GISMCONFUSE 11 months ago
@GISMCONFUSE .....good grief. Troll.Faaaagggit!
jwattie 11 months ago
@jwattie a troll isn't someone who simply disapproves of a video and comments on his thoughts. and faaaaaagggit is spelt with an O.
GISMCONFUSE 11 months ago
@GISMCONFUSE Haha! It was a reference to a sketch about trolls, I'm perfectly aware of how to spell the word faggot thank you and if you had a valid argument other than something "sucks ass" as you so eloquently put it then maybe your opinion would be more valid. As it stands I doubt many people would take your criticism seriously simply because you are unable to express yourself.
jwattie 11 months ago
@GISMCONFUSE Oh and another thing, I have blocked you so you will no longer be able to post silly comments on my profile. If you don't like my taste in music move on but judging from the music on your profile which is pretty immature and unsophisticated I doubt you would have the good sense to do something so sensible. If you really are 47 then you should be ashamed of your infantile behaviour! Just pathetic!
jwattie 11 months ago
@jwattie Im.Nineteen.Bitch.
GISMCONFUSE 11 months ago
@jwattie I am actually very able to express myself, but I didn't necessarily WANT anyone to take me all that seriously. It seems however, that you yourself have fallen for my supposed futile attempt at being a "troll". And what was that about the Music I listen to? Immature?! I'm guessing anything "hip-hop" is garbage in your opinion? And by the way, Im nineteen years old, not 47. And yeah... there is nothing on my page more unsophisticated than the monks.
GISMCONFUSE 11 months ago
@GISMCONFUSE Hip hop isn't garbage but the music you have on your channel isn't hip hop. It is a pale, shitty imitation of he music my generation made. The Monks wipe the floor with any piece of shit, plageurised crap your music has to offer sunshine!
jwattie 5 months ago
@jwattie six months later and your fuckin cunt ass is still rambling... get a life you fucknut
GISMCONFUSE 5 months ago
@GISMCONFUSE This from the man (and I'm using that term in it's loosest form obviously!) who responded in a few days? The very reason I didn't reply for six months is because unlike you I don't feel the need to hang around waiting for a response to my posts on you tube because it's the only attention from the opposite sex that I'm likely to get! I shall probably be off for another six months now because cretinous little boys bore the shit out of me.....bye!!!!
jwattie 5 months ago
@jwattie yea bye fuck off now
GISMCONFUSE 5 months ago
the missing link...
upsetter73 1 year ago
I love how hard that guy on the left is clapping at the very end.
bcaprari 1 year ago
The Monks were Punks?
TheSkuLLcomedyShow 1 year ago
WOW! Proves that the Army drafted some real geniuses back in those awful days... these guys were AWESOME!
eelalien 1 year ago 2
Strictly a novelty act whose music can be categorized as "Music for people who don't have any friends"
TeenCretin 1 year ago
@TeenCretin and you're music taste consists of?
the0scarlet0piper 1 year ago
@TeenCretin If that's the case then you should be a big fan.
cobz12 1 year ago
@TeenCretin Whereas you listen to "music for people who don't have any friends and think following trends and listening to what everyone else listens to will help", which unfortunately is sadder.
achickensandwich 1 year ago
Kraftwerk on jungle speed
iconicshrubbery 1 year ago
The Monks Rock!!!!!, been exposing musician's to them for the last ten years!
Ravyn4310 1 year ago
This is great music
qwerty129834761 1 year ago
the guy to the left of the chick at the start looks a bit like Lee havard oswald haha,
LittleLenin 1 year ago
green day are kind of hot and miss nowadays but american idiot was good.dookie good./great.imsomniac .great/good.theres 2 kinds of music good and bad.green day are good..dont blame them for their imitators..sum 41 are shit for example...ragging on green day is just plain dumb pal.wise up
stankler 1 year ago
@stankler I have never once considered green day punk, and find that those who do should actually research punk as a genre and the musicians who made it what it is. Punk is dead. little suburbanites with mohawks and bleached hair are in no way punk. iggy pop is punk. charged spikey hair and songs about rebellion are pop rock punk cash-ins. green day is the same a good charlotte. they make a living off of teen angst. you, should wise up and learn that music is subjective and genres are not.
WhitePage3 1 year ago
Some pretty damn nice drumming, too. Cool.
pappnasensack 1 year ago
looks like 15 people need to get their priorities in order.
chiaroscurolove 1 year ago
Good morning, do you like sixties? Listen and pod cast my program " great sound of 60' s " on the site plumfm. Greeting and made blooper in rock and roll.
Salut, vous aimez les sixties ? Ecoutez et podcatez mon émission "le super son des sixties" sur plum fm. Salut et faites gaffe au rock'n roll.
supersondessixties 1 year ago
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Good morning, do you like sixties? Listen and pod cast my program " great sound of 60' s " on the site plumfm. Greeting and made blooper in rock and roll.
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supersondessixties 1 year ago
Does anyone know how they got that bass tone?
atovarn7 1 year ago
@atovarn7 Eddie Shaw is using a Gibson EBO5 w/either a Selmer amp w/18" speaker or a Vox Foundation amp & speaker.
Skinem58 1 year ago
There are like a million punk bands that claim to be the original punk band or the only true punk band. And here is the real thing, punk without even trying to be punk, Isn't that the ultimate punk? And, almost as a contradiction, better than the would-bes.
jspiker1974 1 year ago 2
One of the maddest bands and stories in Rock history, so far ahead of anything its hard to believe, the fact that they were GI's makes it even more incredible!
maclennan73 1 year ago
This is awesome, you posted this. Thanks.
unclebeasley 1 year ago
@chridonn thank you! i was thinking that too
roquesand 1 year ago
I used to try to play melodically when I did keyboard solos. Now I only play like Larry Clark.
sonicdeath10 1 year ago
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This really sucks
cheifguggletram 1 year ago
This is from 1965. Higgle-dy Piggle-dy Danny.
LuxuryYacht 1 year ago
RAW and Rare and Wierd. Nice One Monks.
guidedbythespirit 1 year ago
the first part sounds like a misfits song
sbe1945 1 year ago
Its like TV on the Radio, only decades earlier!
yenbinary 1 year ago
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Their music really sucks farts
TheAlistairDick 1 year ago
that scared the fuck out of me
BORNTORUNANDALIVEMAN 1 year ago
There's nothing holy about this crap!
MrBilgey 1 year ago
attitude, but no heart
CrandMackerel 1 year ago
I Get chills every fucking time
benhalperin011793 1 year ago
These guys were US soldiers stationed in Germany. I'm surprised the army let them get away with those haircuts. Gotta love those drums and that fuzz bass.
kw21925 1 year ago
Wow, a Philicorda organ with a Klemt Echolette tape delay - drooool... Overend Watts (bassist of Mott the Hoople) is one of the Monks biggest fans. Class!
morganfjp 1 year ago
in 60's not only beatles changed popular music....
ColdOasisU2 1 year ago
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thecuckookid 1 year ago
I just saw their DVD on eBay, The Transatlantic Feedback. Very hard to find.
thecuckookid 1 year ago 2
@thecuckookid Sundance Channel had it on today. Awesome!!!
RayNDeere 1 year ago
they were so so so rad, extremely influential... one of the first bases of punk and art rock. although they didn't beat out the kinks... debase me all you want i don't care
duhhg80 1 year ago
They were doin' this wld-ass shit in 1965!
smokeemonkee 1 year ago
Love it! Sure play a guitar like Ouija Board...why not?...who knows what forces you'll summon. Also, I've never seen so many big tambourines! Looks like a wacked-out opening ceremony for some subcultural Olympics! Yep they're friggin' Gods. And don't forget to check out the GODZ.
StephaneVorstellung 1 year ago
r they real bald spots?
PAULisDEADMANnumber9 1 year ago
@PAULisDEADMANnumber9 nope the Monks actually shaved those in their heads -- that is commitment!
stdrange 1 year ago 12
@stdrange hmmmmmmmm.......... creative.
PAULisDEADMANnumber9 1 year ago
@stdrange is that where peter gabriel got the idea?
leolodreamland 1 year ago
@PAULisDEADMANnumber9
matrixgigolo 1 year ago
@PAULisDEADMANnumber9 tonsures, really,
Doctorateindoom 1 year ago
This song reminds me a bit of Love & Rockets. Perhaps The Monks had an influence on them.
theplanetariumscene 1 year ago
Man, every video I watch of these guys is better.
sonicdeath10 1 year ago 7
Everyone check out CORDUROY00's uploads of ALL The Monks "Beat Club" performances. PRISTINE! It never fails to blow my mind (and I say this on every Monks video) that I went from seeing these guys in Feb. of '06 right here on YT, to meeting Dave and Eddie only a few months later. I wrote Dave a letter for a T-shirt, he wrote me back, and on July 1, '06 I went to the L.A. premier of "The Transatlantic Feedback" and met both Dave and Eddie. R.I.P Dave....miss ya.
MattHatter 1 year ago
WOW...I thought I was fortunate to be living in Seattle in the early-mid 90's during the whole grunge thing...but it turns out that what I really missed was Germany circa mid 60's
hazegrey75 1 year ago 2
i dance best to monk chant
Karmalize 1 year ago
Proper fuzz tones!
Eightball69 1 year ago
1:13 : the 2001: A Space Odyssey of guitar solos.
all hail the Monks
scareware 1 year ago
how many years ahead in time?
suricatafari 1 year ago
@suricatafari not too many
mradamcooley 1 year ago
very nice one!!!
luix78carlos 1 year ago
Green day? FUCK THAT SHIT! PABST BLUE RIBBON!
sonofdamocles 1 year ago 2
this is fucking out of orderly good.
dsssmk2 1 year ago
The Monks are like the Parents or grandparents of Muse... I swear Muse sounds just like this... Amazing... WAYY ahead of their time!
Biggestmutemathfan 1 year ago
Passion.
JuanKallot 1 year ago
is this on black monk time?
marrrrrrks 1 year ago
Great band the monks but if you'll listen to the peruvian band Los saicos and the songs demoler, Alcatraz, el gato mayor recorded 1964, you'll agree with Iggy pop and the singer of the Cramps they were punks before the punk started
victormanueification 2 years ago
ah know that area pretty well, got mates up there. yeah liked what i 'eard from vivian girls (albeit not much) and of course eighties matchbox will do any day of the week. if they (VG) play somewhere real small i'll ave a gander, can't hack big venues, cheers for heads up mate
cruiserscreek 2 years ago
you heard Liars? 'They stuck us all in a trench and put a monument on top' and 'they were wrong, so we drowned' are both awesome albums. Also a band called McClusky that imploded far too soon and The Walkmen who sound nothing like the other bands but are the real deal. you from salford then? i'm based in south manchester
cruiserscreek 2 years ago
Good screen-name man, my fave Fall song.
ClueSign 2 years ago
cheers mate (some bastard had taken my favourite - Newfaceinhell - which always works so well on forums...)
cruiserscreek 2 years ago
LOL - on some forums I was "MarkESmithIsGod" but it took too long to type. Cheers.
ClueSign 2 years ago
Ah, the 60s and 70s had such quality dancing in the audience.
spindlegold 2 years ago
@rancidsexbeast
monks 60's
can 70's
the fall 80's
the fall 90's
the fall 00's
but i am biased...
cruiserscreek 2 years ago
The stuff of legend!!!! Long live the Monks!!!!!!!
jwattie 2 years ago
Ah, just got done playing "Black Monk Time" on my turntable. Had to come and post some Monks on Facebook. All I've been through with this band is such a trip. From first seeing them on You Tube in Feb. of '06 to meeting Dave and Eddie in July '06 to keeping in contact with Dave up until his passing in Jan. of '08. Guys I love the fact you've been getting your due over these years, may God continue to bless your musical legacy. I've love to be able to see you again Dave. In heaven someday.
MattHatter 2 years ago
predates fred frith tabletop guitar
drakescott1111 2 years ago 2
fuck green day, and long live THE MONKS!!!
that´s real punk and not the bullshit of today like green day and co.
catrileo68 2 years ago 51
@catrileo68 why would you even mention green day in the same breath as the legendary monks give me a break the monks are so much more superior to those commercial sell outs
floydian1987 1 year ago
@floydian1987 Because there was also a punk band from the 70's called The Monks.
bIametheniIe 1 year ago
@catrileo68 omg not that punk stuff
yoitbeangel 1 year ago
Love this
thenowuk 2 years ago
wegweisend
suppenk123 2 years ago
no these are not munks
tianaice77 2 years ago
And who said the American military was good for nothing?
mick2spic 2 years ago 13
XD so true XD great comment!!!
Tsujigiri83 2 years ago
Ja, lang lebe die US Armee!
Volkmarshausen 1 year ago
@Volkmarshausen German artists reeducated the former US occupational soldiers via deconstruction of beat music, result: The monks.
bimhimbim 1 year ago
@bimhimbim I'm not sure that is true....they already had a very deeply ingraned american blues influence which is perfectly influential in their music. I don't doubt Germanic music of the time would have an effect, they wee rised in the great american jazz era so must have been influenced. The music whch followed was wonderful though and the german peopl really appreciated the music in it's purest form.
jwattie 11 months ago
@bimhimbim I'm not sure that is true....they already had a very deeply ingrained american blues influence which is perfectly influential in their music. I don't doubt Germanic music of the time would have an effect, they wee rised in the great american jazz era so must have been influenced. The music whch followed was wonderful though and the german peopl really appreciated the music in it's purest form.
jwattie 11 months ago
@jwattie It is the result of a pop music deconstruction experiment. Of course they are highly gifted.
bimhimbim 11 months ago
The Devo of the 60s!
whato1986 2 years ago 3
so damn good!!
greatgaspingratty 2 years ago
monks are monks theres no one else like these guys
fuzzbuzzuk 2 years ago 26
@fuzzbuzzuk well the sonics are kinda like them a litle bit, and there's some strange Japanese US army base music that isn't totally unlike this either. No one did it quite like the monks though so, true enough.
kemicon 1 year ago
It's like the Fall, Kraftwerk and Can are having a party. Outstanding.
mookie2637 2 years ago
this song is to short!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Funnysterste 2 years ago 2
The absolute antithesis of the beatles and one of my all time favorite bands. Thanks for posting this.
vaginacockalitis 2 years ago
Btw. it's a PHILIPS PHILICORDA organ and a KLEMMT ECHOLETTE effect ( maybe modified ) wich are creating this great sound ( to see in the video )...
Kind regards - Thommy
ThommyCortina 2 years ago 3
@ThommyCortina that's the most wicked sounding organ i think i've ever heard. we used to plug a friend's continental into a univox super fuzz and get a great tone, but that's beyond crazy! thanks for the model names
sedg 2 years ago
jeff large dig this
brianlowdown 2 years ago
Wow this is fucking brilliant
Diavir 2 years ago
Original music!
Movielunatic 2 years ago
Overdriven keyboard, bass distortion that sounds like that amp should have melted to the floor, and 5 tambourines at once....yep, definitely checking this band out more.
BrohemianRhapsody 2 years ago
There is this documentary called "The monks - the transatlantic feedback", or something like that. Try to get hold of it. I think there is also a version in English.
BTW, I love those hipnotical drums
koehlicool 2 years ago
That drumbeat IS rock'n'roll.
MagnificentFiend 2 years ago
the circle jerk on the guitar is so fked. love.
jackhillty 2 years ago 2
5 ex american soldiers and two ahead of their time German managers produced the best band in the 1960's...they were the beginning of industrial....techno..
SLACKER614 2 years ago 2
For me the 60s' version of the Butthole Surfers
whato1986 2 years ago 4
wait, wait, I mean the 60s version of Devo...
wait, wait, I mean in spirit, yeah, ok, that'll do
whato1986 2 years ago 3
who was first
brianlowdown 2 years ago
hahaha.
Germany is our future colony.
They study English.
goduk321 2 years ago
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weldorn 2 years ago
Best sound ever, discribes the power of
this great group
Slowbuddy 2 years ago
Sau geil Mooooooooooooooonks!!